Spain added 23,998 net jobs during the month of March, a 0.12% rise from February.
The number of people enrolled in social security programmes in seasonally adjusted terms hit 19.96 million, the highest in the historical series, after eleven months of consecutive growth, the Social Security Ministry said in a separate report.
Spain has long had high unemployment, largely due to the ease with which employers can fire staff in a market in which I held almost a quarter of jobs under temporary contracts. February’s 12.6% unemployment rate was still the European Union’s highest, according to Eurostat. Report by Reuters: April 4th 2022.